Question about reformatting a PC drive...

[mongo]

Download and install this:

http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm

Delete the OS/2 partition and resize the XP partition to the full size of the disk.

It's a good idea to take a backup of any important files before you do this in case something goes wrong.

[mongo]

You don't have to do that, and you don't need any 3rd party tools.  Open Storage Management, blow the partition away, expand your extant partition. Bam, done.

Not in XP.

[mongo]

Wow!  So it's possible to resize a partition without destroying the data in that partition?  Meaning I can enlarge my Windows XP partition without having to do a restore or reinstallation?

Yes.

[mongo]

Well, you can do it in XP, partially. You can "blow away" the partition with Windows disk management. Then boot from the XP install CD, enter the repair console and use DiskPart to expand the remaining partition.

Diskpart will only work if the partition is NTFS. On a machine that was set to dual boot with OS/2, I wouldn't count on the XP partition being NTFS.

It's a whole lot quicker and easier to just get the free EaseUS Partition Master software from the link I provided and use that.